Podcasts by Food Without Borders
Immigrants make our food system vibrant, diverse and delicious. Each week, food writer Sari Kamin will speak to a noteworthy guest about how food helps connect them to their past, ease potential conflict across cultures and strengthen the future. She’ll also explore what it’s really like to be an immigrant in the U.S.A today.
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Episode 5: Sarah Khan & Krishnendu Ray from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.484758
On this week’s episode of Food Without Borders, Sari is joined in studio by Krishnendu Ray, chair of the NYU Food Studies graduate department and multimedia artist and scholar, Sarah K. Khan. Krish...
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Episode 8: Tasting Queens with Culinary Backstreets from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.479565
On a special "in the field" episode of Food Without Borders, Sari and HRN engineer David Tatasciore go on a food walk of Queens with Culinary Backstreets, a tour company that highlights family-run ...
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Episode 11: Ariel Barbouth, Founder and CEO of Nuchas from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.476504
This week on ?Food Without Borders?, host Sari Kamin is joined in the studio by Ariel Barbouth, founder and CEO of Nuchas, which brings Argentinian food staples to NYC. In 2011, Nuchas opened its f...
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Episode 12: Palestinian Home Cooking at Tanoreen with Rawia and Jumana Bashara from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.475480
On the season finale of ?Food Without Borders?, host Sari Kamin is joined by mother and daughter Rawia and Jumana Bashara of the restaurant Tanoreen, a blend of classical Middle Eastern home-style ...
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Episode 16: Food and the crisis in Puerto Rico with Alicia Kennedy and Rafa García Febles from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.471514
Hurricane Maria exacerbated pre-existing problems of access and equality in Puerto Rico. Food and beverage writer Alicia Kennedy and bartender Rafa García Febles join Sari in studio to speak about ...
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Episode 20: James Boo of One Minute Meal, Catherine Piccoli of MOFAD, and Mos Gen The Poet from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.467005
Today on Food Without Borders, Sari is joined by Catherine Piccoli, James Boo, and Mos Gen the Poet. Catherine is the curator of MOFAD, the museum of food and drink. She speaks about th...
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Episode 21: Nigerian food and resistance with Yewande Komolafe from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.465827
Yewande Komolafe is a food stylist and recipe developer raised in Lagos, Nigeria. After moving to the United States for college, Yewande started cooking as a way to stay connected to her African he...
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Episode 24: The Immigrant Cookbook with Leyla Moushabeck, Samantha Seneviratne, Ana Sofia Pelaez, and Lauryn Chun from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.462467
The Immigrant Cookbook is a vibrant new collection of diverse heritage recipes that make America great. Collected and edited by Interlink publisher, Leyla Moushabeck, the cookbook will be on sale D...
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Episode 26: Refugees, Jews, & Chocolate with Debbie Prinz and Warren Klein from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.460725
Chocolate is a migrant food. Today we hear from Rabbi Debbie Prinz, author of the book "On The Chocolate Trail" who tells us how chocolate provided business and trade opportunities to Jewish refuge...
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Episode 27: Food, Race, Appropriation, and Grief with Writer Mayukh Sen from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.459725
Mayukh Sen is a staff writer at MUNCHIES, VICE'S food publication. As the child of Bengali immigrants, his work elevates overlooked immigrant stories and elucidates the connections between food, fe...
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Episode 30: Food, Loss, and Memory with Simran Sethi from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.456619
Simran Preeti Sethi is an award-winning journalist whose prolific work in food, education and social justice activism centers around biodiversity, sustainability and environmentalism. Her book, Bre...
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Episode 33: The Samosa Wallah at the Farmers Market with Samosa Shack's Mini Dhingra from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.453562
Kolkata-born and raised Mini Dhingra speaks with Leah about why she left a career as a business analyst to start a food company making small-batch artisanal samosas. Since launching four years ago ...
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Episode 38: Breaking Bread and Boundaries with Phil Rosenthal, Host of Somebody Feed Phil from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.448641
On this very special epsiode of Food Without Borders, Sari is joined in studio by Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond and host of Somebody Feed Phil, now in its second season on ...
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Episode 39: Aquaponics and Immigration with Nigerian-Born Founder of Oko Farms, Yemi Amu from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.447828
On the Season 4 premiere of Food Without Borders, Sari is joined in-studio by Yemi Amu, the co-founder of Oko Farms, Brooklyn's largest and oldest aquaponics farm. Tune in for a conversation about ...
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Episode 43: Female Chefs and Modern Indian Cuisine with chef Surbhi Sahni from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.443648
Surbhi Sahni is a veteran NYC chef and the creative director at Saar Indian Bistro. Surbhi landed her first restaurant job over 20 years ago in an all-female professional kitchen in Delhi before sh...
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Episode 47: BLK Palate with Cleopatra Zuli from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.438469
After moving from her hometown of Boston to New York City for college, Cleopatra Zuli saw that something was missing from the local dining experiences where thoughtful conversations were accidenta...
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Episode 48: My Venezuelan Kitchen with Mercedes Golip from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.436886
Caracas-born culinary artist and self-taught chef Mercedes Golip remembers being a picky eater as a child. Now, her life revolves around experimenting with food. Years after she and her husband imm...
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Episode 51: Woke Foods with Ysanet Batista from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.380155
Ysanet Batista is the founder of Woke Foods, a food justice worker-owned cooperative that uses plant based food and farming as a tool of empowerment for people in her community to heal from trauma,...
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Episode 57: Changing the world one sip at a time: Numi Organic Tea with Reem Rahim Hassni and Jane Franch from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.360712
Iraqi-born Reem Rahin Hassani, co-founder of Numi Organic Tea, talks about starting an organic fair trade company with her brother that supports labor equity in the tea industry. She's joined by Ja...
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Episode 61: Curry Cravings with Nandita Godbole from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.356726
Today on Food Without Borders we speak with Indian-American author Nandita Godbole of Curry Cravings whose essays, biographical fiction & upcoming cookbook offer a curious cultural lens + pragmatic...
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Episode 65: Love, Kindness, and Rice: Pakistani Cuisine and Identity with Fatima Khawaja from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.352755
Pakistani-American chef Fatima Khawaja grew up in Lahore and moved to the US at 18 yrs old to pursue a culinary career. We talk about the flavors of her home in Lahore, not looking like a “typical”...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Jacqueline Pilati from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.344489
Episode 6 of At the Table is with Jacqueline Pilati, an urban farmer, seed keeper, educator, and founding member of Cooperative Gardens Commission, a grassroots movement to share resources and help...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Chef Tunde Wey from 2022-02-22T03:30:40.336810
In episode 12 of At The Table, Sari speaks with Tunde Wey, the Nigerian-born and New Orleans-based artist, writer, and cook.
In this conversation, Tunde goes into greater depth about his n...
FWB Presents: At the Table with Carina Kaufman-Guttierez from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In episode 11 of At The Table, Sari speaks to Carina Kaufman-Guttierez, Deputy Director of the Street Vendor Project. Street Vendor Project works with approximately 2,000 people who sell food and m...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Elizabeth Peralta from 2020-05-21T20:35:44
In episode 10 of At The Table, Sari speaks with Elizabeth Peralta, Executive Director of the National Supermarket Association. Representing over 800 independent stores, 99% of which are Latino-owne...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Deepti Sharma from 2020-05-14T21:21
In Episode 9 of At The Table, Sari talks to Deepti Sharma, an entrepreneur, mother, and champion of small business owners. Deepti is the founder of FoodtoEat, a company connecting women, immigrant...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Devita Davison from 2020-05-14T19:25:26
Episode 8 of At the Table is with Devita Davison, Executive Director of FoodLab Detroit, a nonprofit business support organization that helps to incubate and accelerate food businesses that want to...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Ashtin Berry from 2020-05-14T19:11:37
Episode 7 of At the Table is with sommelier, beverage consultant, and hospitality activist Ashtin Berry. Ashtin is a champion of women and POC's in the food and beverage sector, and much of her wor...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Greg Baxtrom and Max Katzenberg from 2020-04-27T20:48:29
In episode 5 of At the Table, Greg Baxtrom and Max Katzenberg of Olmsted and Maison Yaki in Brooklyn explain how overnight they went from being restaurateurs to activists. Together they've created ...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Founder of oyster Sunday Elizabeth Tilton from 2020-04-20T22:59:37
Episode 4 of At the Table is with Elizabeth Tilton, founder of New Orleans-based hospitality group Oyster Sunday. In response to COVID-19, Oyster Sunday is providing free consultations to independe...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Chef Eric Rivera from 2020-04-20T22:59:27
In episode 3 of At the Table, Public Programs Manager speaks with Eric Rivera, chef of Addo in Seattle. Chef Rivera explains how he was able to seamlessly convert his restaurant into a take-out-onl...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Food and Drink Writer Alicia Kennedy from 2020-04-20T22:59:19
In episode two of At the Table, Sari Kamin speaks with Alicia Kennedy, a food and beverage writer based in Puerto Rico focused on covering issues of labor within the hospitality industry. In light ...
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FWB Presents: At the Table with Food Journalist Andrea Strong from 2020-04-16T18:12:04
In episode one of At The Table, Food Without Borders Host and MOFAD Public Programs Manager Sari Kamin spoke with Andrea Strong, a journalist covering food policy and the restaurant industry for Fo...
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Episode 67: Interfaith Meat with Mohammad Modarres from 2019-04-17T19:05
Mohammad Modarres, is a current 2019 TED Resident and the founder of Abe’s Meats (AbesMeats.com). an award-winning social impact organization that has produced the first-ever Interfaith Meat produc...
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Episode 66: Liberation Cuisine with Gabriela Álvarez from 2019-04-10T19:15
Chef Gabriela Alvarez founded Liberation Cuisine in 2014 with the mission to feed movement work. She creates menus inspired by her Caribbean roots and works to support an equitable and healthy food...
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Episode 64: The Karachi Kitchen with Kausar Ahmed from 2019-03-27T19:21
Kausar Ahmed is a Karachi-born chef, educator, and food stylist whose debut cookbook, The Karachi Kitchen, features recipes from the crossroads of South Asia.
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Episode 63: Khao'Na Kitchen with Shilpa Nandwani and Cole Carothers from 2019-03-20T11:49
Today we speak with Cole Carothers and Shilpa Nandwani, co-founders of Khao'na Kitchen, a Brooklyn-based worker owned collective run by women and nonbinary QPOC offering wellness coaching, educatio...
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Episode 62: Cold Brew Tea and Chinese-American Identity with Evy Chen from 2019-03-13T18:00
Evy Chen is founder of Evy Tea, the first cold-brew tea company in the US, and its brick and mortar location, Tea Bar in Boston. Born in Southeast China, Evy's politically-active family instilled i...
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Episode 60: Epicurious Safari with Nicky Marcelin from 2019-02-27T23:08
Haiti-born Nicky Marcelin is the chef and founder of Epicurious Safari, a food experience company that curates intimate culinary events rooted in the African Diaspora. Tune in to hear Nicky tell he...
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Episode 59: Chilis on Wheels with Michelle Carrera from 2019-02-20T23:00
Puerto Rican activist Michelle Carrera founded Chilis on Wheels in 2014 when she couldn’t find a soup kitchen in NYC that served vegan meals. The non-profit has grown from her small kitchen to over...
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Episode 58: Veggie Mijas with Amy Quichiz from 2019-02-13T23:29
Born and raised in NYC, Amy Quichiz is the founder of Veggie Mijas, a national collective for women and non-binary people of color that's rooted in the intersection of race, gender identity, class,...
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Episode 56: Chef Saul Montiel from 2019-01-31T00:37
Chef Saul Montiel of Cantina Rooftop came to NYC from Atotonilco el Grande, a small town in Central Mexico, at age 15 and worked from dishwasher to executive chef. He preserves Mexican history thro...
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Episode 55: Venezuelan cuisine and activism with chef Adriana Urbina from 2019-01-23T21:51
Caracas-born chef Adriani Urbina left Venezuela to study culinary arts in France, Spain, and NYC where she started a restaurant and hospitality group and became a 3X champion of Food Network's Chop...
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Episode 54: Chef Henry Trieu of Falansai Vietnamese Kitchen from 2019-01-17T18:12
In our first episode of Season 5, we’re joined by Saigon-born Henry Trieu, chef and founder of Falansai. Henry came to the US as a refugee and worked in restaurants spanning French, Chinese, & Viet...
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Episode 53: Sol Sips with Francesca Chaney from 2018-12-20T15:30
Raised in East New York, 22-year-old Francesca Chaney grew up in an apartheid food desert with limited access to affordable plant-based foods. Connecting the ties between food, holistic wellness an...
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Episode 52: Spice Tree Organics with Doaa Elkady and Freda Nokaly from 2018-12-12T23:37
On today's episode, we are joined by the founders of Spice Tree Organics, Doaa Elkady and Freda Nokaly, both Egyptian-American Muslim women who left careers in journalism & engineering (respectivel...
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Episode 50: An Island for Queer Caribbean Dreams with DeVonn Francis of Yardy from 2018-11-29T16:52
As a queer Jamaican-American, DeVonn Francis thinks a lot about home—as a place he grew up, a destination he returns to, and a body he inhabits. After moving from his hometown in Virginia to study ...
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Episode 49: The Bread and Salt Between Us with Mayada Anjari, Mira Evnine, and Liz Clayman from 2018-11-15T00:32
On today's show we speak with Mayada Anjari, the author of the cookbook, The Bread And Salt Between Us. Mayada is from Syria and she came to the United States in 2016 with her husband and four chil...
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Episode 46: The Spice Journey with Essie Bartels from 2018-10-24T21:43
Raised in Ghana, Essie Bartels came to the United States when she was 18 with a dream of working her way up the ranks in corporate America. Disheartened by the food she encountered in the U.S, she ...
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Episode 45: A Brown Table with Nik Sharma from 2018-10-17T20:12
Nik Sharma is the writer, photographer, and recipe developer behind A Brown Table, an award-winning blog. His weekly column, A Brown Kitchen, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle His newly relea...
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Episode 44: The Palestinian Table with Reem Kassis from 2018-10-10T22:55
When Jerusalem-born Reem Kassis left home at age 17 for university in the United States, she vowed she'd never never end up in the kitchen.
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Episode 42: Bottom Of The Pot with author Naz Deravian from 2018-09-27T03:32
Naz Deravian is the award-winning writer of the blog and cookbook, Bottom Of The Pot. Naz's family fled Iran in 1980 amidst the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis. Her new cookbook tells the sto...
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Episode 41: Changing the Narrative of Chinese Food in America with Chef Lucas Sin of Junzi Kitchen from 2018-09-19T22:18
Chef Lucas Sin of Junzi Kitchen opened his first restaurant at the age of 16 in an abandoned newspaper factory in his hometown of Hong Kong and then ran a pop-up restaurant out of dorm at Yale Univ...
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Episode 40: Turmeric, Sexuality, and Social Justice with Sana Javeri Kadri, Queer Food Photographer and Founder of Diaspora Co. from 2018-09-12T22:18
Sana Javeri Kadri is a queer food photographer amd the founder of Diaspora Co., a spice collective that opeates in Mumbai and Oakland. Tune in to hear Sana talk about her work in social justice, fo...
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Episode 36: Noobtsaa Philip Vang, founder of Foodhini from 2018-04-20T17:49
Noobtsaa Philip Vang is the founder of Foodhini, a meal delivery service that employs immigrant & refugee chefs, creating space for them to share their culture's cuisine and increase multicultural ...
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Episode 35: Saffron Stories, Pomegranates, and Appropriation with Yasmin Khan from 2018-04-18T21:42
On the Season 3 finale of Food Without Borders, we speak with best-selling author, campaigner, and cook, Yasmin Khan. Her debut book, The Saffron Tales, explored her culinary adventures through Ira...
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Episode 34: From Jimma, Ethiopia to Jimma's Oasis Juice Bar in Harlem with Entrepreneur and Community Enterpriser Abdi Abujebel from 2018-04-11T23:26
Abdulsalam Abujebel, or Abdi, is the Ethiopian owner of Oasis Jimma Juice Bar in Harlem, New York City. After spending years in a Kenyan refugee camp and struggling to find his footing, Abdi was a...
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Episode 32: Atla's Chef-de-Cuisine, Hugo Vera from 2018-03-28T23:13
Today in studio we spoke with Hugo Vera, the chef-de-cuisine at Atla, an all-day cafe in New York City. Hugo moved to South Carolina from Mexico City at age 19 and caught the eye of top chefs in th...
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Episode 31: The Lao Food Movement with Chef Seng Luangrath from 2018-03-14T23:17
Laos-born Seng Luangrath is the chef and owner of Thip Khao, Washington D.C.’s first Lao restaurant. Chef Seng fled Laos as a refugee with her family during the Vietnam and learned to cook from he...
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Episode 29: Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Gelato with Uli Nasibova from 2018-02-21T23:54
Azerbaijan-born food entrepreneur and recipe developer, Uli Nasibova left the world of finance to pursue her passion making gelato and started her own thriving business, Gelateria Uli—a small-batch...
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Episode 28: Covering Indian Food Culture for the mainstream media with food writer Priya Krishna from 2018-02-14T23:49
Today we welcome Priya Krishna on the show to chat about her prolific work covering the culinary world and bringing Indian food culture to the forefront. Priya's writing has appeared in the New Yor...
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Episode 25: South Philly Barbacoa with Cristina Martinez and Ben Miller from 2018-01-24T12:30
Cristina Martinez is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who came to America in order to pay for her daughter's college tuition. While working at a restaurant in Philadelphia, she met fellow cook Ben...
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Episode 23: Southern Foodways with Chefs John Currence and Vishwesh Bhatt from 2017-11-30T16:03
This week on Food Without Borders, Leah chats with two acclaimed chefs of Southern cuisine?:? New Orleans native and restaurateur?,? John Currence?,? and India-born Vishwesh Bhatt?, ?executive chef...
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Episode 22: Hawa Hassan from 2017-11-16T00:19
Born in Somalia, Hawa Hassan's family fled to a refugee camp in Kenya to escape the civil war. When she was only seven years old, Hawa was sent to Seattle to live with a family friend and start a n...
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Episode 19: The Cooking Gene with Michael Twitty from 2017-10-25T22:54
This week on Food Without Borders, Leah speaks with culinary historian, Michael W. Twitty, whose acclaimed new book, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old...
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Episode 18: Sourcing and Sahadi's with Christine Sahadi Whelan from 2017-10-18T23:38
This week on Food Without Borders, Sari sits down with Christine Sahadi Whelan, the owner of James Beard Foundation-winning gourmet Middle Eastern grocery in Brooklyn. Christine and Sari discuss th...
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Episode 17: Chef Pierre Thiam from 2017-10-12T04:19
Born and raised in Dakar, Pierre Thiam is the executive chef of Nok by Alara in Lagos and the owner of Pierre Thiam catering in New York. He is a also a James Beard award-nominated cookbook author,...
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Episode 15: Chef Jehangir Mehta from 2017-09-27T21:54
Born in Bombay, Jehangir Mehta is the chef and owner of Grafitti, Grafitti Earth, and Me and You in NYC. On this episode of Food Without Borders, Chef Mehta speaks with Sari about his upbringing in...
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Episode 14: League of Kitchens from 2017-09-20T21:54
The League of Kitchens is a unique cooking school in New York City where immigrant instructors teach the recipes of their origin countries to students in their own homes. On this episode of Food Wi...
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Episode 13: Komeeda with Jabber Al-Bihani and Nasser Jaber from 2017-09-13T21:46
The debut episode of the second season of Food Without Borders features Jabber Al-Bihani and Nasser Jaber, partners at Komeeda, a platform that creates unique dining experiences that amplify the vo...
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Episode 10: Deepti Sharma and Carine Assouad from 2017-07-19T22:11
Today on Food Without Borders, Sari is joined in studio by Deepti Sharma and Carine Assouad. Deepti is the founder of Food to Eat, a platform that empowers and provides marketing services for immig...
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Episode 9: Assimilation Food with Soleil Ho from 2017-07-12T22:10
On a new episode of Food Without Borders, host Sari Kamin is joined by Soleil Ho, a chef, writer, and co-host of the The Racist Sandwich podcast.
Tune in to hear them discuss her assimilat...
Episode 7: Vonnie Williams from 2017-06-28T21:45
Today on Food Without Borders, Sari chats with Vonnie Williams, the co-founder of The Black Forks, a platform that explores all things Food and Culture through the Black lens. Vonnie started The Bl...
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Episode 6: Tunde Wey from 2017-06-14T21:30
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian-born chef based in New Orleans who creates dinner series meant to inspire conversations surrounding race and immigration. Wey uses food as a way to gather people and create ...
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Episode 4: Fany Gerson from 2017-05-31T21:45
On this week's episode of Food Without Borders, Sari is joined by chef and author Fany Gerson of La Newyorkina. After a long trip to her native Mexico to write her first book “My Sweet Mexico” Fany...
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Episode 3: Chef Gaurav Anand from 2017-05-24T21:21
On this week's episode of ?Food Without Borders?, Sari is joined in studio by Chef Gaurav Anand. Not formally trained as a chef, Gaurav learned by watching chefs and recreating their recipes. He w...
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Episode 2: Manal Kahi of Eat Offbeat from 2017-05-18T00:27
On the second episode of Food Without Borders, Sari is joined in studio by Manal Kahi. She's the founder of Eat Offbeat, a catering company staffed by refugees chefs who prepare recipes they've car...
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Episode 1: #BannedFood with Chef Aliya LeeKong from 2017-05-10T22:04
On the debut episode of Food Without Borders, host Sari Kamin sat down with chef and cookbook author, Aliya LeeKong. Aliya is the author of "Exotic Table: Flavors, Inspiration, an...
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Episode 1: #BannedFood with Chef Aliya LeeKong from 2017-05-10T22:04
On the debut episode of Food Without Borders, host Sari Kamin sat down with chef and cookbook author, Aliya LeeKong. Aliya is the author of "Exotic Table: Flavors, Inspiration, an...
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Episode 1: #BannedFood with Chef Aliya LeeKong from 2017-05-10T22:04
On the debut episode of Food Without Borders, host Sari Kamin sat down with chef and cookbook author, Aliya LeeKong. Aliya is the author of "Exotic Table: Flavors, Inspiration, and Recipes from Ar...
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